Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility under its Small Grants Programme will finance small projects conceptualised and managed by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations (CBOs), charity organisations and/or mandated by National Disaster Coordinators in local communities across CCRIF member countries and/or CARICOM member countries.
Projects should focus on areas that contribute to building resilience to natural hazards, such as environmental sustainability projects, disaster risk reduction projects, ecosystems-based adaptation projects, small scale engineering projects, and climate change adaptation projects. Focus should also be on building the capacity of communities through education and training in disaster risk management, environmental management, and climate change adaptation among other related areas.
Objectives
- The small grants programme is designed to:
- Enhance capacities at the local community level and raise awareness of disaster risk management and climate change
- Enhance partnerships, cooperation, coordination and collaboration mechanisms in support of disaster risk management (DRM)
- Support best practices in community development
- Ensure replicability of good practices at the local level and contribute to innovation in DRM practices at the local level.
Focus Areas
- Projects should be related to the following broad areas:
- Disaster risk management
- Engineering
- Climate change adaptation
- Training and other capacity building initiatives
- Environmental management initiatives that will directly have an impact on reducing community vulnerability
Funding Information
- This programme provides grants between US$5,000 and US$25,000 to NGOs CBOs and academic institutions to implement community-based disaster risk reduction projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- All registered NGOs, CBOs, charity or non-profit organizations and universities operating within local communities across CCRIF member countries in the Caribbean and/or CARICOM member countries are eligible for funding.
Selection Criteria
- The following are the selection criteria:
- Topic and content of the project, its originality and alignment with the mandate of CCRIF
- Quality, relevance and contribution of project partners
- Transparency and accuracy of the budget
- Development of local communities with an emphasis on reducing existing and future vulnerabilities of local communities
- Potential for replicability and the multiplicative effect across communities in the region.
For more information, visit CCRIF.